How do I tell the expected encoding for a web instance

[Vectorspace]

My understanding is an IBMi web instance can be configured as to what encoding it expects the incoming data to be in (ASCII, UTF-8, etc)

If so, where can I see this setting?

[Scott Klement]

Which HTTP server are you referring to?

[Vectorspace]

I don't understand the question.

Our IBM I has web/http server instances set up, so I can go to http://myIBMi:1234/someName/myPgm.pgm and get a page generated by RPGLE CGI program MYPGM

[jtaylor___]

I assume he's talking about Apache.

[Vectorspace]

That sounds right

[Scott Klement]

So you are running the IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache), 5570-DG1? Not Tomcat, WAS, Nginx, IAS, IWS ... or any of the myriad other HTTP servers?

That being the case, the configuration file is located under /www/THE-INSTANCE-NAME/conf/httpd.conf by default. In that file, you may find a directive like this:

DefaultNetCCSID 1208
DefaultFsCCSID 37

This means that it will translate between CCSID 37 (USA EBCDIC) and CCSID 1208 (UTF-8).

If DefaultFsCCSID isn't there, it uses the system's default CCSID for EBCDIC.
If DefaultNetCCSID isn't there, I think it uses CCSID 819 (but don't quote me on that.)

[Vectorspace]

The instance config is indeed /www/THE-INSTANCE-NAME/conf/httpd.conf so I assume it is Apache.

I have never noticed Default**CCSID directives in instance config before, so I assume they must be ASCII 819. I will double check when I get to work

[Vectorspace]

Checked, and I have found that most instances are not specifying DefaultNetCCSID. According to https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledg...e/rzaiepdf.pdf page 303/304, that means the default is CCSID 819 ASCII unless changed with CHGHTTPA

Is there a way to see the current values of CHGHTTPA attributes? If I prompt the command I just see *SAME for everything, and there is no DSPHTTPA equivalent

[jtaylor___]

Make sure the user has enough privileges. I've seen that in the past where it shows *SAME for some users, but admin profiles show the values.

[Scott M]

That is the case, when I prompt it I get all the values.

[Vectorspace]

That would make sense, I will ask an operator to check for me

Thanks all